03219oam 2200745I 450 991081331030332120240131154231.01-136-22468-81-283-71002-10-203-09791-21-136-22469-610.4324/9780203097915 (CKB)2670000000269355(EBL)1046984(OCoLC)817889081(SSID)ssj0000757884(PQKBManifestationID)11413506(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757884(PQKBWorkID)10776191(PQKB)10419505(MiAaPQ)EBC1046984(Au-PeEL)EBL1046984(CaPaEBR)ebr10619063(CaONFJC)MIL402252(OCoLC)894138658(OCoLC)1045368524(FINmELB)ELB134966(EXLCZ)99267000000026935520180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEugenics, literature and culture in post-war Britain /lare HansonNew York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (201 p.)Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;11Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;11Description based upon print version of record.1-138-10949-5 0-415-80698-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-186) and index.Eugenics and the meritocracy -- Defective humans: mental deficiency in post-war Britain -- Genetics and eugenics -- Race and the body politic -- Population control -- Afterword.This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in medicine, social and educational policy, genetics, popular science, science fiction, and literary texts, Hanson tracks the dynamic interactions between eugenic ideas across diverse cultural fields, demonstrating the strength of the eugenic imagination. Challenging assumptions that eugenics was fatally compromised by its association with Nazi atrocities, or that it petered out in the context of changed social attitudes in an egalitarian post-war sRoutledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on LiteratureEnglish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory20th centuryEugenics in literatureEugenicsGreat BritainHistory20th centuryBiopoliticsGreat BritainHistory20th centuryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryEugenics in literature.EugenicsHistoryBiopoliticsHistory820.9/00914Hanson Clare.166638MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813310303321Eugenics, literature and culture in post-war Britain3918984UNINA